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I'm testing out a brand new 200L system and found a couple of potentially disastrous but potentially easy-to-fix issues:
1) While mashing the temperature indicated on the thermometer which sits near ...

Not having any cooling mechanism for my fermenter(s), this time of year I can get more favorable temperatures outside than inside.
I'm specifically talking about ciders in glass containers, but I'm ...

Like the title says, after I chilled my wort I realized the kit I ordered did not come with yeast, an error on the packers fault. Because of my work schedule I wasn't able to pitch the yeast for about ...

I was in the middle of a 7-gallon brew, when my landlord informed me that the grain that I had put down my garbage disposal had clogged the main drain for the house. My sink is too small for an ice ...

I'm looking at building a jockey box with a 70', 5/16" (21.3m, 8mm) stainless steel coil (installed in a drum-style cooler.) Seems to be a good compromise between size, weight and cost.
How quickly ...

I have seen mostly two suggestions to cool wort. Ice bath and the coil method. My friend and I were thinking about just using ice. Ie pull the ice from the fridge that uses the same water source as ...

There seems to be a fair amount you can get away without doing when using extract in brewing, since the extract has already gone through most of the process before being packaged (e.g. no need to boil ...